Natural areas of Tutamoe Ecological District (3. Ecological character)

Olearia crebra (Nationally Endangered)
Olearia cebra is a large-leaved tree daisy (4–6m) endemic to the Waima
Forest (part of O06/001) where it is generally found over 500 m asl on
steep cliffs. Olearia crebra was first discovered in 1982 (Heenan and
Cameron 2002).
Picris burbidgeae (Nationally Endangered)
Picris burbidgeae (AK 288553) is an indigenous annual herb recorded in
2004 for the first time in this Ecological District from alluvial silt banks
on the Waipoua River, part of O06/001 (Department of Conservation,
Bioweb Threatened Plants Database, March 2006).
Pomaderris phylicifolia (Nationally Endangered)
Pomaderris phylicifolia is a shrub found mainly on the coast in open
sites amongst manuka and sedges. Maureen young recorded this plant
in the Waipoua area on the roadside under some pine trees in 1986
(Department of Conservation, Bioweb Threatened Plants Database, March
2006) and it has been recorded at Maunganui Bluff (Esler and Dobbins
1977).
Senecio scaberulus (Nationally Endangered)
Senecio scaberulus is a grey/green or yellow fireweed found in lava fields,
open coastal and offshore islands from Auckland to Te Paki. Formerly
widespread, it is now rare in the wild. The east coast of Northland is
the stronghold for this species and hybridisation with a close relative
S. hispidulus and weed invasion of its habitat are major threats to its
survival (L. J. Forester pers. comm.). Recorded from the Waipoua Forest
part of O06/001 (SSBI O06/H015) in this Ecological District.
todea barbara (Nationally Endangered)
Todea barbara is a fern which can have a trunk up to one metre
tall. There is only one record of Todea barbara on the west coast of
Northland, recorded in the Waipoua Forest (part of O06/001) by Jenny
Lux in 2004 (Department of Conservation, Bioweb Threatened Plants
Database, March 2006).
utricularia australis (Nationally Endangered)
Utricularia australis (also known as yellow bladderwort) is an indigenous
submerged free-floating bladderwort known only from the North Island
in New Zealand. This wetland plant is found in coastal and lowland
situations where it appears to like a sunny situation in shallow and
still water. In the northern North Island this plant is seriously at risk
in particular through competition from the introduced U. gibba which
occupies the same habitat and has a far more aggressive growth form
(NZPCN 2007).
hebe perbella Bartlett’s koromiko (Nationally Vulnerable)
Bartlett’s koromiko is an endemic koromiko with voilet red or violet,
or occasionally pink or blue fading to white flowers. It grows on cliff
26 Natural areas of Tutamoe Ecological District